KODAK. The Kodak camera is the in vention of George Eastman, and the first model appeared in the year 1888. It is now manufac tured in a number of sizes and styles, some making use of both cartridge roll film and dry plates. The original Kodak camera took round pictures inches in diameter, was of the fixed focus type and carried a roll of film sufficient for 100 exposures. Its invention prac tically marked the advent of amateur photog raphy, as before that time both apparatus and processes were too burdensome to permit of classification in the field of recreation. The roll film used in the first model of the Kodak camera had a paper base but was soon super seded by a film with a cellulose base, a prac tical, transparent, flexible film. The first films had to be loaded into the camera and unloaded in the dark room, but the film cartridge system with its protecting strip of non-actinic paper made it possible to load and unload the camera in ordinary light. The Kodak Developing Machine and it: simplified successor, the Kodak Film Tank, provided the means for day light development of film, so that now the dark room is not necessary for any of the operations of amateur photography. The earlier types of the Kodak cameras were of the box form and of fixed focus, and as various sizes were added, devices for focusing the lenses were incor porated. The first folding Kodak cameras
were introduced early in the nineties; these ' were equipped with folding bellows which per mitted much greater compactness. The first pocket Kodak camera was introduced in 1895. It was of the box form type, slipping easily into an ordinary coat pocket, and producing negatives 134 x 2 inches. The first folding pocket Kodak camera was introduced in 1897, and at the present time all the Kodak cameras are of the folding type, except one especially designed for taking panoramic pictures, which is of the box type. A recent invention, the Autographic Feature, provides a means for re cording data on the margin of the negative it self at the time of exposure. This feature is now supplied on all Kodak cameras with the ex ception of the one for making panoramic pic tures. The Kodak system of photography for the amateur had been so perfected that to-day the amateur has a wide range in optical equip ment, and every essential for the producing of a finished photograph may readily be carried in any ordinary Gladstone bag with room to spare.